Definition of pick-up

1. pickup [ n ] a light truck with an open body and low sides and a tailboard

Used in print:

(Ralph J. Salisbury, "On the Old Santa Fe Trail...)

Hardly had Mrs._Roebuck driven off when a rusty pick-up truck , father or grandfather of Senor `` Moriarty 's '' Ford sedan , came screeching to a dust swirling stop , and a brown face appeared , its nose threatened by shards of_what had once been the side window .

The car was just about to us , its driver 's fat , solemn face intent on the road ahead , on business , on a family in Sante_Fe - on anything but an old pick-up truck in which two human_beings desperately needed rescue .